NATIONAL AGRICULTURE POLICY FRAMEWORK (2018-2030)

1 Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe NATIONAL AGRICULTURE POLICY FRAMEWORK (2018-2030) First Draft June 20, 2018 NATIONAL AGRICULTURE POLICY FRAMEWORK (2018-2030) Ministry of Lands, AGRICULTURE and Rural Resettlement 2nd Floor Ngungunyana Building, Borrowdale Rd, Harare, Zimbabwe. June 2018 NATIONAL Agricultural POLICY FRAMEWORK i | P a g e FOREWORD [In progress] NATIONAL Agricultural POLICY FRAMEWORK ii | P a g e ACKNOWLEDGEMENT [In progress] NATIONAL Agricultural POLICY FRAMEWORK iii | P a g e TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD .. i ACKNOWLEDGEMENT .. ii List of Tables .. vi List of Figures .. vii ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS .. viii 1. BACKGROUND .. 1 Sectoral Characteristics.

2 1 Significance of AGRICULTURE in Zimbabwe .. 2 Rationale of NAPF .. 3 Linkages of NAPF to other Sector Policies .. 3 NATIONAL , Regional and International Context for NAPF .. 4 2. SITUATION ANALYSIS .. 5 Overview .. 5 Public Expenditure and POLICY .. 6 Agricultural Sector Performance in Zimbabwe .. 9 Agricultural GDP and value added per worker .. 9 Agricultural Production and Productivity .. 10 Emerging Challenges of Agricultural Sector .. 12 Food Security and Nutrition .. 13 Agricultural Knowledge, Technology and Innovation System .. 14 Production and supply of agricultural 18 development of Agricultural Infrastructure .. 20 AGRICULTURE Marketing and Trade development .. 22 Expanding Supply of and access to Agricultural Finance and Credit.

3 23 Access to Land, Tenure Security and Land Administration .. 24 Sustainable AGRICULTURE .. 26 3. GOAL, VISION, OBJECTIVES AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES .. 29 Goal .. 29 Vision .. 29 NATIONAL Agricultural POLICY FRAMEWORK iv | P a g e POLICY Objections .. 29 Guiding Principles .. 29 Evidence based decisions .. 30 Productivity and growth oriented .. 30 Nutrition sensitive .. 30 Market-based interventions .. 30 Private sector-led and public sector facilitated .. 30 Collaborative and multi-sectoral .. 30 Participatory and responsive to agro-ecological potential .. 30 Sustainability .. 30 Gender, youth and other vulnerable groups 31 4. POLICY OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIC INITIATIVES .. 32 Pillar I: Food and nutrition security.

4 32 Summary of challenges faced .. 32 Emerging Strategic Objectives .. 32 Strategic Initiatives .. 33 Agricultural Knowledge, Technology and Innovation System .. 34 Challenges Faced .. 34 Emerging Strategic Objectives .. 34 Strategic Initiatives .. 35 Pillar III: Production and Supply of Agricultural Inputs .. 36 Challenges Faced .. 36 Emerging Strategic Objectives .. 36 Strategic Initiatives .. 37 development of Agricultural Infrastructure .. 38 Challenges Faced .. 38 Emerging Strategic Objectives .. 38 Strategic Initiatives .. 39 Agricultural Marketing and Trade development .. 40 Challenges Faced .. 40 NATIONAL Agricultural POLICY FRAMEWORK v | P a g e Emerging Strategic Objectives .. 40 3 Strategic Initiatives.

5 41 Agricultural Finance and 42 Challenges Faced .. 42 Emerging Strategic Objectives .. 42 Strategic Initiatives .. 42 Access, Tenure Security and Land Administration .. 43 Challenges Faced .. 43 Emerging Strategic Objectives .. 43 Strategic Initiatives .. 43 Sustainable [Green] AGRICULTURE .. 44 Challenges Faced .. 44 Emerging Strategic Objectives .. 44 Strategic Initiatives .. 45 OPERATIONALIZING THE POLICY FRAMEWORK .. 46 Agricultural Hubs, Clusters and Corridors .. 46 Adopting Hub/Cluster/Corridor development .. 46 Rethinking Institutional Arrangements .. 48 Promotion and Facilitation of Investment in AGRICULTURE .. 48 RESOURCE MOBILISATION .. 50 MONITORING, EVALUATION AND LEARNING SYSTEM.

6 51 REFERENCES .. 52 NATIONAL Agricultural POLICY FRAMEWORK vi | P a g e LIST OF TABLES Table : Strategic initiatives to improve food and nutrition security .. 33 Table 4. 2: Strategic Initiatives to develop and promote an efficient AKTIS .. 35 Table : Strategic initiatives to increase the utilisation of improved productivity-enhancing agricultural inputs .. 37 Table : Strategic Initiatives for investing more resources in the development of infrastructure to support agricultural production and marketing .. 39 Table : Strategic Initiative for developing effective and efficient domestic, regional and international agricultural markets .. 41 Table : Strategic Initiative for increasing finances to AGRICULTURE .

7 42 Table : Strategic Initiative for promoting equitable and secure land ownership and rights .. 43 Table : Strategic Initiative to improve farmer resilience to climate shocks .. 45 NATIONAL Agricultural POLICY FRAMEWORK vii | P a g e LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Zimbabwe farm type distribution by year .. 1 Figure 2: Contribution of various agro sub-sectors to AGRICULTURE GDP .. 2 Figure 3: Population below poverty line (%) rural and urban for selected years .. 5 Figure 4 Food Insecurity Trends (Source: ZimVAC) .. 5 Figure 5: Description of the Natural regions of Zimbabwe .. 6 Figure 6: Budgetary allocation to the AGRICULTURE sector, 1995- 2017 .. 8 Figure 7: Trend in MAMID expenditure by line item (percent of total AGRICULTURE ministry budget).

8 8 Figure 8: Agricultural contribution to gross domestic product (GDP), 1985-2016 .. 9 Figure 9a and 9b: Agricultural contribution to gross domestic product (GDP), 1985-2016 .. 11 Figure 10: Regional maize productivity (yields), 1985-2014 .. 11 Figure 11: NAPF Pillars .. 12 Figure 12: Annual Budgetary Allocation to Research and Extension in AGRICULTURE .. 16 Figure 13: NAPF Guiding Principles .. 29 NATIONAL Agricultural POLICY FRAMEWORK viii | P a g e ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS AGRITEX Agricultural Technical and Extension Services AKTIS Agricultural Knowledge, Technology and Information Systems AKTIPS Agricultural Knowledge, Technology and Information Platform Systems ASPEF AGRICULTURE Sector Productivity Enhancement Facility CA Conservation AGRICULTURE CAADP Comprehensive Africa AGRICULTURE development Programme DFID Department for International development DR&SS Department of Research and Specialist Services FAO Food and AGRICULTURE Organisation of the united nations FDGs Focus Group Discussions FTLR Fast Track Land Reform GDP Gross Domestic Product HCCs Hubs/Clusters/Corridors IAPRI Indaba Agricultural POLICY Research Institute ICT Information Communication Technology LFSP Zimbabwe Livelihoods and Food Security Programme LFSP-APN Zimbabwe Livelihoods and Food Security Programme AGRICULTURE Productivity and Nutrition MAMID Ministry

9 Of AGRICULTURE , Mechanization and Irrigation development MDGs Millennium development Goals MFI Microfinance Institution MFED Ministry of Finance and Economic development MLARR Ministry of Lands, AGRICULTURE and Rural Resettlement MSU-FSG Michigan State University - Food Security Group NAPF NATIONAL AGRICULTURE POLICY FRAMEWORK NEPAD New Partnership for Africa's development PSF Productive Sector Fund RESAKSS Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System SADC Southern African development Community SDGs Sustainable development Goal SGR Strategic Grain Reserve SSA Sub-Saharan Africa UN united nations UNDAF The united nations development assistance FRAMEWORK UZ-AEE University of Zimbabwe, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension NATIONAL Agricultural POLICY FRAMEWORK ix | P a g e ZAIP Zimbabwe Agricultural Investment Programme ZEPARU Zimbabwe Economic POLICY Analysis and Research Unit (ZEPARU) ZimAsset Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation ZIMSTAT Zimbabwe Statistics Agency ZimVAC Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee NATIONAL Agricultural POLICY FRAMEWORK 1 | P a g e 1.

10 BACKGROUND Sectoral Characteristics The potential for agricultural growth in Zimbabwe is staggering. The country is uniquely endowed with rich resources for agricultural development , which if harnessed fully, would enable the country to become the breadbasket of the southern African region again. Zimbabwe has abundant land, a large amount of underground and surface water resources (with more than 8,000 dams), and rich flora and fauna. Diverse agro-climatic conditions have enabled the country to grow a large variety of crops, with over 23 types of food and cash crops and a variety of livestock species. One of the key features of the agricultural sector in the last 15 years has been the fundamental transformation in the structure of land ownership, and access to and use of rural agricultural land as a result of the fast-track NATIONAL land reform and resettlement programme.